Best Drawing Tablet?
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Like TechBanana said, If you want us to tell you a good tablet that is best, we'll need to know your budget.
If you're looking to go for a simple tablet, the intuos pro line is probably your best bet. If you're intending on investing a lot of time and money into illustrating then you'll want to have a look at wacom's cintiq lineup.
In terms of specific tablets, the intuos series is rather basic, with few bindable hotkeys on the side, with lower quality styluses and in general a lower build quality ranging in price from $50-150. The intuos pro series has a vastly superior build quality, packaged with a wacom pro pen and also have upwards of 6 bindable express keys ranging from $250-500. These tablets also come in three sizes, being small medium and large. I would personally recommend targeting a medium sized tablet, as the small ones can be somewhat restrictive in size and the large ones are extortionately expensive.
Onto Cintiqs. The cintiq series has the most versatile range of sizes and form factors, and you can generally find one best suited for you, but do keep in mind that you'll be paying a lot more than the intuos tablets. The cintiq I currently use is a Cintiq 13HD, which is also available in a touch version for a higher price. These are the bottom end of the current cintiqs, and are priced around $850-1100 USD.
The rest of the current cintiq series is very highly priced, with the cintiq 22HD priced at $2000+ and the 27QHD priced at $3000+
There are other such cintiqs as the cintiq companion, which is a cintiq with it's own tablet computer built into it for standalone use without plugging into a computer.
In reality, the tablet you should get entirely depends on what kinds of features you find most useful, and how much you're able to spend on one. The intuos tablets do not have a screen built in, whereas the cintiqs do. This means that on the cintiqs you can draw directly onto the surface you'll be looking at, and quite often that advantage is enough for people to buy cintiqs from the getgo and skip the intuos tablets. I personally started on an Intuos Pro 4 small, and used that to earn the funds to buy my 13HD which I've now used for the last 10 months.
TL-DR = Read the post, it's useful.
In terms of specific tablets, the intuos series is rather basic, with few bindable hotkeys on the side, with lower quality styluses and in general a lower build quality ranging in price from $50-150. The intuos pro series has a vastly superior build quality, packaged with a wacom pro pen and also have upwards of 6 bindable express keys ranging from $250-500. These tablets also come in three sizes, being small medium and large. I would personally recommend targeting a medium sized tablet, as the small ones can be somewhat restrictive in size and the large ones are extortionately expensive.
Onto Cintiqs. The cintiq series has the most versatile range of sizes and form factors, and you can generally find one best suited for you, but do keep in mind that you'll be paying a lot more than the intuos tablets. The cintiq I currently use is a Cintiq 13HD, which is also available in a touch version for a higher price. These are the bottom end of the current cintiqs, and are priced around $850-1100 USD.
The rest of the current cintiq series is very highly priced, with the cintiq 22HD priced at $2000+ and the 27QHD priced at $3000+
There are other such cintiqs as the cintiq companion, which is a cintiq with it's own tablet computer built into it for standalone use without plugging into a computer.
In reality, the tablet you should get entirely depends on what kinds of features you find most useful, and how much you're able to spend on one. The intuos tablets do not have a screen built in, whereas the cintiqs do. This means that on the cintiqs you can draw directly onto the surface you'll be looking at, and quite often that advantage is enough for people to buy cintiqs from the getgo and skip the intuos tablets. I personally started on an Intuos Pro 4 small, and used that to earn the funds to buy my 13HD which I've now used for the last 10 months.
TL-DR = Read the post, it's useful.
I suggest the Wacom Intuos if you're not willing to spend up to $2000. I have the wacom Intuos and the only issue I have with is I cant visually see what's happening on the tablet I have to look at the screen. If you have LOTS of money to spare I suggest getting something like this http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...NfJ2Nr0lcsCFZWMaQodEWgLaA&is=REG&Q=&A=details
iPad pro any model
Nah definitely not an iPad pro.
Apple hasn't released the pressure sensitivity for it, which probably means it's much lower than most drawing tablets.
The iPad pro is also not a PC, so it can't run popular drawing softwares such as Photoshop, Manga Studio 5/Clip Studio Paint Pro, or Paint Tool SAI. There are drawing apps available on the app store, but they aren't as good.
The iPad pro also isn't dedicated to being a drawing tablet. I predict that most iOS updates for it won't have anything to do with the drawing aspect of the tablet.
If you give me your budget for a drawing tablet it would greatly help me help you.
Is this like saying: "You say that chimps are bad at writing poetry? Well, a chimp named Licy won numerous awards as #1 poet chimp!"?
Procreate seems to have won things like Apple Design Awards or App Store Essential, where it competed against other Apple apps, which is nice and all, certainly a thing to be proud of, but tells us absolutely nothing about whether or not it's comparable to something like Gimp, much less Photoshop. Did it ever win any awards competing against those programs?
Exactly, the iPad pro isn't designed to. The iPad pro has limits for an artist, you can only download apps that are available from the app store. In the app store, drawing apps are a minority, and good drawing apps are at an even smaller minority. (I also bet that this potentially great app is far less powerful than a software like photoshop. As opposed to on a PC, there are so many options to choose from. You can test and experiment around, you can afford to dislike one. If that's the case, you can move onto trying out the next great software.
I'm not sure how the exporting feature on procreate works (as I have never used it), but since there are no usb ports on the ipad pro, I would assume you would have to email it to yourself. Emailing yourself can often be a hassle (not to mention it often limits the file size).
The iPad pro is $1000. If you have that kind of budget why not spend it on a tablet that is specifically made for graphic artists? Such as the cintiq. It even has side buttons to increase your productivity.
(Also, lucky for us, we are not toddlers)
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